whisker

I look at the slender brown hound next me, grey whiskers poking out round his nose.

"Use of any force to maintain order and discipline is just a whisker away from when we used to hit people at school, frankly."

The sight of Richard Parker, a growling behemoth of musculature and whiskers, is the most fearsome.

“That’s how they greet,” Ebsen told me a few weeks before, “their whiskers send signals straight up to their brain which tells them all about your smell, your hormones, everything.”

In the 16th century, California came within a Tudor whisker of being a queen’s land: Elizabeth I.